Street Poets Podcast
Real-life stories & interviews – laced with original poetry & music – produced by the creative team at Street Poets Inc. – a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization transforming our world one rhyme at a time. ••••••• Born in an L.A. County juvenile detention camp in 1995, Street Poets works behind bars and beyond, from inner-city high school classrooms to Native American reservations, from local streets and projects to countries as far away as Belize, Sweden, Northern Ireland and South Africa. Whether reciting from our "Poetry in Motion" van, rapping in our recording studio, or singing in a sweat lodge, we create in the knowledge that we carry the seeds of solutions to our world's most intractable problems within us. Our mission is to liberate those solutions, that medicine, our gifts – so that we all can experience together what it feels like to be free. ••••••• For more on Street Poets visit streetpoetsinc.com, or follow us on Instagram: @streetpoetsinc @streetpoetspodcast #metaphorsbewithyou
Street Poets Podcast
HARD WAY HOME: The Taylor Code Story
Street Poets founding member TAYLOR CODE MAXIE Jr. reflects back on his redemptive journey through gangs, gunshot wounds and prison to the kind of poetic power and hard-won wisdom that saves lives – one rhyme at a time. Laced with Taylor's original poetry and music, this episode sheds light and sound on one of our community's most dramatic origin stories. We offer "HARD WAY HOME" as inspiration for all those who've faced death and chosen life.
This STREET POETS PODCAST episode
"HARD WAY HOME: The Taylor Code Story"
is a production of Street Poets Inc. (streetpoetsinc.com)
• Hosted by Art Quiros
• Produced by Chris Henrikson
• Edited by Art Quiros
• Sound Design by Art Quiros
• Original Music & Mix by Jake Falby
• Original Music by Kevin Woods
• Additional Voice: Kaylyn Wright
• Street Poets "I Got Love" Podcast Theme Music features:
Vocals by BRIA & Taylor Code, Music by Dave Wittman
• Special Thanks: New Math
This episode includes the following original poems and songs by Taylor Code:
"Face Off," "Bottom Line," and "Not Too Many"
(To hear more original poetry & music from our recording studio archives, visit Street Poets Inc. on SoundCloud and Bandcamp.)
For more information about Taylor Code and his work in the world: iamtaylorcode.com
For more information about Street Poets' youth outreach programs in the streets, schools and probation facilities of Los Angeles and beyond: streetpoetsinc.com
METAPHORS BE WITH YOU!